WooCommerce
Sign in to saveWooCommerce is an open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-sized online merchants using WordPress. Launched on September 27, 2011, the plugin quickly became popular for its simplicity to install and customize and for the market position of the base product as freeware (even though many of its optional extensions are paid and proprietary). WooCommerce is developed and supported by Woo and includes contributions from a global community of developers.
Key facts
- Software.name
- WooCommerce
- Software.logo
- WooCommerce2025 logo.svg
- Software.logo size
- 250px
- Software.caption
- WooCommerce Admin Panel
- Software.author
- Mike Jolley, James Koster
- Software.developer
- Automattic
- Software.programming language
- PHP <!------------------------
- Software.latest release date
- 23 July 2025
- Software.latest release version
- 10.0.4
- Software.operating system
- Unix-like, Windows
- Software.genre
- e-commerce
- Software.license
- GPL
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- plug-in
- Subclass of
- web design
- Country
- United States
- Owned by
- Automattic
- Country of origin
- United States
- Developer
- Automattic
- Platform
- Q13166
- Official website
- woocommerce.com
- Has use
- e-commerce
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- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 3.0
- programmed in
- PHP
- source code repository URL
- github.com/woocommerce
- software quality assurance
- continuous integration
- software version identifier
- 10.4.2
- social media followers
- 24039
- Commons category
- WooCommerce
- service status information URL
- automatticstatus.com
- supplement to
- Q13166
- official blog URL
- woocommerce.com/blog
- inception
- 2011-01-01
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/woocommerce
- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Usage
- Extensions
- Revenues
- See also
- References
- External links
WooCommerce is an open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-sized online merchants using WordPress. Launched on September 27, 2011, the plugin quickly became popular for its simplicity to install and customize and for the market position of the base product as freeware (even though many of its optional extensions are paid and proprietary). WooCommerce is developed and supported by Woo and includes contributions from a global community of developers.
==History== WooCommerce was first developed by WordPress theme developer WooThemes, who hired Mike Jolley and James Koster, developers at Jigowatt, to work on a fork of Jigoshop that became WooCommerce. In January 2020, it was estimated that WooCommerce is used by around 3.9 million websites.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WooCommerce” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.